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Paternal Family Tree: Shelley
In 1728 [his father] Timothy Shelley and [his mother] Johanna Plume were married.
On 21st June 1731 Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet was born to Timothy Shelley and Johanna Plume in Newark, New Jersey.
On 30th June 1752 Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet and Mary Catherine Michell were married.
On 7th September 1753 [his son] Timothy Shelley 2nd Baronet was born to Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet and [his wife] Mary Catherine Michell.
Before 17th August 1769 [his wife] Mary Catherine Michell died.
On 17th August 1769 Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Jane Perry were married.
On 11th March 1770 [his father] Timothy Shelley died.
In 1771 [his son] John Shelley-Sidney 1st Baronet was born to Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet and [his wife] Elizabeth Jane Perry.
Before 11th March 1800 [his son] John Shelley-Sidney 1st Baronet and [his daughter-in-law] Henrietta Hunloke were married.
In 1806 Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet was created 1st Baronet Shelley of Castle Goring in Sussex.
The London Gazette 15892. Whitehall, February 25, 1806.
The King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and lreland to the following Gentlemen, and the respective Heirs Male of their Bodies lawfully begotten.
Charles Hastings, of Willesley-Hall, in the County of Leicester, Esq; Lieutenant-General of His Majesties Forces.
Bysshe Shelley, of Castle Goring, in the County of Sussex, Esq.
Montagu Cholmeley, of Easton, in the County of Lincoln, Esq.
Thomas Sutton, of Molesey in the County of Surrey, Esq.
On 6th January 1815 Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet died. [his son] Timothy Shelley 2nd Baronet succeeded 2nd Baronet Shelley of Castle Goring in Sussex.
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. In May 1816 the pair [Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet and [his granddaughter-in-law] Mary Godwin aka Shelley] left England for Switzerland, together with Miss Clairmont, and their own infant son William. They went straight to Sécheron, near Geneva; Byron, whose separation from his wife had just then taken place, arrived there immediately afterwards. A great deal of controversy has arisen as to the motives and incidents of this foreign sojourn. The clear fact is that Miss Clairmont, who had a fine voice and some inclination for the stage, had seen Byron, as connected with the management of Drury Lane theatre, early in the year, and an amorous intrigue had begun between them in London. Prima facie it seems quite reasonable to suppose that she had explained the facts to Shelley or to Mary, or to both, and had induced them to convoy her to the society of Byron abroad; were this finally established as the fact, it would show no inconsistency of conduct, or breach of his own code of sexual morals, on Shelley's part. On the other hand, documentary evidence exists showing that Mary was totally ignorant of the amour shortly before they went abroad. Whether or not they knew of it while they and Claire were in daily intercourse with Byron, and housed close by him on the shore of the Lake of Geneva, may be left unargued. The three returned to London in September 1816, Byron remaining abroad; and in January 1817 Miss Clairmont gave birth to his daughter named Allegra.
